Winning a won position…
8 June 2007 13:49 PM | Last modified: 13:50
… is known as one of the most difficult things in chess. Which is kind of a paradox, because when a position is already winning, the winning method shouldn’t be the problem anymore? But so often we think that such a position wins by itself, and suddenly we see that the opponent found some nasty counterplay. One thing I learnt is that, in a winning position, you shouldn’t stop calculating! Try to find the quickest way to win by just calculating accurately. All this is very relevant to the fantastic manoeuvre David Eggleston and I found in his fifth round game of the current First Saturday IM tournament in Budapest.
By the way I’d like to mention that in the gameviewer below you can click on every move after which the position belonging to that move will be seen on the chessboard. You can also watch it in a separate window.
Perhaps Yochanan Afek can turn this one into an endgame study. 
Dit is wel echt een geniaal moeilijke winstweg, erg leuk!
Peter! I see that the tournament which the position is taken from is going terrific for you.
Good luck in the last 5 rounds.
Nice example about won positions!
Yes, good luck to you Peter in the remaining rounds of the event!
“Eerst dachten we dat 4. Tc3 de beste was maar dan kan zwart 4… Kd6! spelen en bovenstaande variant waarin wit de zwarte dame wint, gaat hier niet op”… maar met die toren op c1 win je de dame toch ook niet? Dus wat gebeurt er nu precies na 4.Tc1 Kd6?
Correct, one idea hasn’t been mentioned yet. The advantage of the rook on c1 is that after 4.Rc1 Kd6 5.Qb6+ Ke5 6.Qc7+ Ke4 you have the move 7.Qc2+! when 7…Ke5 8.Qc3+ Kf5 9.Qxf6+ wins.
Ah, fraai inderdaad! Da’s misschien nog wel de subtielste pointe van Tc1… veld c2 vrijmaken voor Dc2.
A nice article.
The game isn’t over as long as it is not allowed to put the pieces back in the box.